<\/a>Jimmy deCastro<\/p><\/div>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time deCastro has put a sports\/talk station on the air in Chicago. As president of Evergreen Media Corp., he transformed the former WLUP AM 1000 into WMVP (for \u201cMost Valuable Player\u201d) in September 1993. Since the Score was still only a daytime station at the time, deCastro billed his upstart competitor as \u201cChicago\u2019s first 24-hour sports and personality station.\u201d<\/p>\n
The initial sports\/talk format lasted only three years before the company reverted to a simulcast of the Loop. Then in 1998, ABC Radio bought WMVP AM 1000 and flipped it back to sports as the network flagship station for ESPN Radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s changed a lot of times since it was [the original] \u2019MVP,\u201d deCastro said of his earlier effort. \u201cYes, we launched that format. But what we\u2019re doing now is a whole new show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A combination of seasoned veterans, promising young talent and a few players to be named later are teaming up as Tribune Broadcasting's\u00a0WGN AM 720 expands its franchise to a brand-new sports\/talk station on 87.7 FM. They\u2019re calling it \u201cThe Game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}